Sentences with phrase «citizen advocacy groups»
Jack Kupferman, president of the senior - citizen advocacy group the Gray Panthers New York City Network, called the fines «almost worthless.»
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The citizen advocacy group, Best4NY, organized the press conference, and Howland Robinson, an executive committee member for the group, joined the two politicians.
Last month the citizen advocacy group for unfunded mandate relief, Best4NY endorsed Castaldi as their pick for State Senate.
Not exact matches
Trump reportedly owns more than three - quarters of Trump Old Post Office LLC, the leaseholder, according to advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Then there's the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's B.C. branch, which is not opposing the HST despite their slogan, which says they are a «citizen's advocacy group dedicated to lower taxes, less waste and accountable government.»
In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.
The TPP has also been condemned by respected citizens groups including the Sierra Club, Doctors Without Borders, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Internet advocacy watchdog Open Media, and even Canadian business tycoon Jim Balsillie and the Canadian head of the Ford Motor Company.
Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.
Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other conservation organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.
Colin and I also discuss the philosophies in Jaron Lanier's «You Are Not a Gadget» and Kurt Vonnegut's «Player Piano,» and how organizations, from advocacy non-profits to citizens groups like the Tea Party, turn their online networks into offline political influence.
«It sucks, but it provides us with a huge opportunity,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of the Citizens Union, a good - government advocacy group.
Thousands of citizens and hundreds of organizations — governments, businesses, advocacy groups, neighborhood associations and more — from across Buffalo Niagara have been a part of One Region Forward.
«It's just member items by another name and process,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a good government advocacy group.
The flyer being handed out by the political advocacy group Citizens Action of New York discussed her «dangerous record» on social security and Medicare.
Common Cause, a non-profit, non-partisan citizen - advocacy group, charged that some of the proposed new Assembly districts on Long Island had been gerrymandered in what its spokesperson called «a game of follow the Democratic voters.»
Advocacy organizations such as Citizens Union and New York Public Interest Research Group have recommended that contributions bundled by lobbyists should not be eligible for matching funds.
The Journal News, Lower Hudson: «There is no good reason for Cuomo to veto bills that would help citizens, advocacy groups, journalists and others access public records and hold government accountable.»
«We're thrilled,» said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, an advocacy group.
«This is a once - in - a-generation opportunity,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform advocacy group that favors a convention.
«It's not typical of discretionary - funding projects to have a more advocacy angle, said Rachael Fauss of Citizens Union, a nonprofit group that observes city and state budgets.
Kingston Citizens, a local advocacy group, is calling for more transparency from the UCIDA (Industrial Development Agency).
«The past couple of budgets have really been holdover, stopgap plans,» said Elizabeth Lynam, vice president of the Citizens Budget Commission, an advocacy group that favors more limited spending.
They plan to discuss the issue at length with advocacy group Citizens Union, which is set to speak at the Commission's next meeting on July 19th.
In written testimony, Reinvent Albany had also emphasized the importance of an API, and advocacy group Citizens Union highlighted the transparency measures in praising the passage of the new rules.
Chris Banks, the director of community advocacy group East New York United Concerned Citizens Inc., said the city should scratch the Forbell Street location off the list of possible jail sites.
«The only way you make something like this work is to fully inform parents what their options are and how to exercise their options, and school superintendents aren't doing that,» says William L. Taylor, chairman of the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, a liberal advocacy group.
An influential citizens» advocacy group in Kentucky last week strongly urged the governor and state lawmakers to set aside their differences and begin work on a comprehensive school - reform program.
As the State Board of Education considers overruling the MNPS School Board and possibly approving charter schools for Nashville originally denied at the local level, grassroots advocacy group TREE is calling on citizens to take action.
Their hope is that students, parents, citizens and public school advocacy groups will use the film to help start an important conversation about the role and value of public education in America.
State legislatures, governors, advocacy groups, and citizens are calling on state education agencies (SEAs) to do more to drive changes in K — 12 education.
On Monday, March 5, 2012, members of the broad alliance of Florida education advocacy groups including: Citizens for Strong Schools, 50th No More, Florida PTA, Fund Education Now, Marions United for Public Education, Save Duval Schools and Support Dade Schools traveled to Tallahassee to join a press conference at 9:30 A in Room 301 of the Florida Senate Office Building.
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is an independent, non-partisan citizens» advocacy group.
The initiative is an extension of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent citizens» advocacy group that works to improve Kentucky schools.
This letter was signed by parents from 25 disability advocacy groups as part of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities.
CardRatings.com is part of U.S. Citizens for Fair Credit Card Terms, a consumer advocacy group devoted to educating consumers about credit cards.
An advocacy group warns that climate change will drive citizens of small Pacific island nations to flee to Australia and it should prepare now.
It has also been strongly embraced by some leading climate scientists, such as former NASA researcher James Hansen, and such advocacy groups as Citizens» Climate Lobby.
«The best - case scenario here is that it does well,» said Caroline Golin, who specializes in Southeast policy for the advocacy group Vote Solar, «and you have enough customer engagement where the citizens of North Carolina push for greater options for community solar, and that opens the doors for low - income communities.»
«A citizens audit of the IPCC study found that 5,587 cited references, nearly a third of all sources, were not peer - reviewed publications, but rather «grey literature,» such as press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, discussion papers, masters and PhD theses, working papers and advocacy literature published by environmental groups,» Sensenbrenner said.
Well, a conservative advocacy group called Citizens United wanted to change all that.
Florida - Based Advocacy Group Against Nursing Home Abuse Released Report Grading States on Performance An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior cAdvocacy Group Against Nursing Home Abuse Released Report Grading States on Performance An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citiGroup Against Nursing Home Abuse Released Report Grading States on Performance An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior cadvocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citigroup fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citizens.
An elder advocacy group fighting against nursing home abuse released a report on Friday, August 9th, grading states on eight different federal quality measures to see which states are guilty of the worst nursing home abuse, and which states are the best places for senior citizens.
It was co-produced by the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, whose allied foundation would later receive Mercer funds.
That's one of the reasons, after the Citizens United case, I appointed the group that developed our new advocacy initiative.»